Abstract: To reduce power consumption in a mobile station apparatus in uplink, while making the system more efficient, the mobile station apparatus has a plurality of transmission antennas 7, performs wireless communications with a base station apparatus, and is provided with a PDCCH reception part 2 that receives designation information for designating the number of transmission antennas to use from the base station apparatus, a PH calculation part 5 that calculates PH (Power Headroom) indicative of a difference between maximum transmission power and transmission power required to achieve desired reception power in the base station apparatus, and a PUSCH transmission part 6 that transmits a signal including the PH to the base station apparatus using the number of transmission antennas designated by the designation information.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display section, a control section, and a cooling section including a first ceiling section, a second ceiling section, a first connecting section and an air stream generating section. The first ceiling section is formed such that a distance of the first ceiling section from a non-display surface of the display section is shorter than that of the second ceiling section, and a ventilating area of a first ventilating passage is smaller than that of a second ventilating passage. The air stream generating section is configured such that an air stream is generated from the second ventilating passage toward the first ventilating passage so as to take the air out of the first ventilating passage and the second ventilating passage, and replenish the taken air with the ambient air. The control section is provided on a control section mounting surface of the first ceiling section.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a liquid crystal display panel having a structure in which a plurality of gate electrodes are arranged on a continuous semiconductor layer and still capable of suppressing increase of a parasitic capacitance between a source region and a drain region. The liquid crystal display panel of the invention includes a thin film transistor. The thin film transistor includes: a base insulating film; a semiconductor layer extending linearly at least from a first portion to a second portion; a source electrode; a drain electrode; and gate electrodes, respectively, to cover the semiconductor layer with a gate insulating film therebetween. A light shielding film is arranged to cover each projection region corresponding to projection of the gate electrode. The light shielding film is arranged in the form of a plurality of light shielding film elements. The light shielding film elements each cover one or more projection regions.

Abstract: This invention provides for certain bridged and fused compounds of the formula G-L-A??I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester of solvate thereof wherein: A is and the other variables are defined herein; the inventive compounds are agonists of the G-protein coupled receptor 40 (GPR40, also known as free fatty acid receptor FFAR). This invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and the use of these compounds to regulate insulin levels in a mammal. The compounds may be used, for example in the prevention and treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and in the prevention and treatment of conditions related to Type 2 diabetes mellitus, such as insulin resistance, obesity and lipid disorders.

Abstract: Regarding an uplink demodulation reference signal to which a cyclic shift and an orthogonal cover code is applied, IFDM is applied to the uplink demodulation reference signal while retaining the number of bits of control information that specifies a cyclic shift and an orthogonal cover code transmitted from a base station apparatus to a mobile station apparatus. A subcarrier offset and a subcarrier interval based on IFDM are uniquely determined in accordance with the cyclic shift and the orthogonal cover code of the uplink demodulation reference signal, reported from the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds according to Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof. Such compounds can be used in the treatment of RORgammaT-mediated diseases or condition.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a document reading unit 110 allowing input of image data generated from a read document, a paper feed unit 140 containing recording paper, an image forming unit 120 forming an image on the recording paper based on the image data, and a touch-panel display 132 displaying a preview image representing a state of image formation. The touch-panel display displays a preview image in a designated orientation for a document of a prescribed size, and displays a preview image in accordance with size and orientation of recording paper fed from the paper feed unit, for a document not of the prescribed size. Thus, for documents of a prescribed size, preview images in a prescribed orientation can be displayed regardless of the direction of arrangement of the recording paper, and easier confirmation of expected finish of the formed image becomes possible.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can achieve a sufficiently-high-speed response and has a sufficiently excellent transmittance and a thin film transistor array substrate preferably used in the liquid crystal display device. The thin film transistor array substrate according to the present invention is a thin film transistor array substrate that includes, as electrodes, one pair of comb electrodes and a sheet electrode, and at least one electrode selected from the group consisting of the pair of comb electrodes and the sheet electrode being electrically connected along a pixel line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first scanning line, a second scanning line and a third scanning line which are provided for each of a plurality of pixel rows; a first signal line and a second signal line which are provided for each of a plurality of pixel columns; a pixel capacitor provided for each of a plurality of pixels; a temporary storage capacitor for temporarily storing a voltage to be written to the pixel capacitor; a first switching element for controlling electrical connection between the first signal line and the temporary storage capacitor; a second switching element for controlling electrical connection between the temporary storage capacitor and the pixel capacitor; and a third switching element for controlling electrical connection between the second signal line and the pixel capacitor.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a signal supplementing unit that generates a harmonic signal of a signal of a predetermined frequency band in an image signal, and supplements the image signal with the generated harmonic signal.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for estimation of additive noise in an image or in a video sequence. An additive-noise estimate may be computed based on a first significant peak in a histogram of standard-deviation values of patches of an image-channel image associated with an input image.

Abstract: Performance of heat insulation between the outside of a storage container and the inside of a storage chamber is effectively improved. The storage container includes a container body having an opening, a door member closing the opening in an openable and closable manner, and a temperature-controlled unit having a function of making a temperature inside a storage chamber 2 enclosed by the container body and the door member be different from a temperature outside the storage chamber.

Abstract: A touch panel controller (3) capable of accurately detecting a change in capacitance includes: a driving section (4) which drives capacitors (C1 through CM) in parallel in accordance with N M-dimensional vectors; and an estimating section (5) which obtains linear sums of the capacitors (C1 through CM) in accordance with the driving in parallel and estimates values of the capacitors (C1 through CM) based on an inner product operation carried out with respect to (i) the linear sums of the capacitors (C1 through CM) and (ii) the N M-dimensional vectors, the driving section (4) driving the capacitors (C1 through CM) in parallel in a first order of the N M-dimensional vectors, the estimating section (5) estimating a first estimated value of the capacitors (C1 through CM) in accordance with the driving in parallel in the first order, the driving section (4) driving the capacitors (C1 through CM) in parallel in a second order of the N M-dimensional vectors, the estimating section (5) estimating a second estimated va

Abstract: The present invention is directed to suppress dullness of a scanning signal in a scanning signal line drive circuit. A bistable circuit is provided with an input terminal (43) for receiving a first clock signal (CK), an input terminal (48) for receiving a control signal (CT), an input terminal (49) for receiving a level down signal (LD), an output terminal (51), a thin film transistor (T2), and a thin film transistor (TA). The thin film transistor (T2) has a gate terminal connected to a first node (N1), a drain terminal connected to the input terminal (43), and a source terminal connected to the output terminal (51). The thin film transistor (TA) has a gate terminal connected to the input terminal (48), a drain terminal connected to the first node (N1), and a source terminal connected to the input terminal (49). The potential of the control signal (CT) becomes the high level in a control period as a period except for the first one horizontal scanning period in a vertical blanking period.

Abstract: A metal flow-through battery is provided, with ion exchange membrane. The flow-through battery is primarily made up of an anode slurry, a cathode slurry, and a hydroxide (OH?) anion exchange membrane interposed between the anode slurry and the cathode slurry, The anode and cathode slurries are both aqueous slurries. The anode slurry includes a metal, and associated oxides, such as magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), or zinc (Zn). The cathode slurry includes a chemical agent such as nickel oxyhydroxide (NiOOH), nickel (II) hydroxide (Ni(OH)2), manganese oxide (MnO2), manganese (II) oxide (Mn2O3), iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3), iron (III) oxide (FeO), iron (III) hydroxide (Fe(OH)), or combinations of the above-referenced materials. A method is also provided for forming a voltage potential across a flow-through battery.

Abstract: The invention provides a thin film transistor having current driving force that can be substantially improved. By heat treatment, the IGZO layer (45) from which oxygen is taken away by the titanium electrodes (65) becomes the low resistance regions (40b), and the IGZO layer (45) from which oxygen is not taken away remains as the high resistance region (40a). In this state, when the gate voltage is applied to the gate electrode (20), electrons in the low resistance regions (40b) near the boundaries with the high resistance region (40a) move respectively to the titanium electrode (65) sides. As a result, the length of the low resistance regions (40b) becomes short, and oppositely, the length of the high resistance region (40a) becomes longer by the size of the shortened low resistance regions. However, the electrical channel length (Le) becomes shorter than the source/drain interval space (Lch) as the limit resolution of the exposure device, and the current driving force becomes large.

Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode (11a), a gate insulating film (12a) covering the gate electrode (11a), a semiconductor layer (13a) made of an oxide semiconductor and provided on the gate insulating film (12a), a source electrode (16aa) and a drain electrode (16ab) provided on the semiconductor layer (13a) via easily reducible metal layers (15aa, 15ab) and spaced apart from each other, with a channel region (C) interposed therebetween, a conductive region (E) provided in the semiconductor layer (13a), and a diffusion reducing portion (13ca, 13cb) provided in the semiconductor layer (13a), for reducing diffusion of the conductive region (E) into the channel region (C).

Abstract: Systems and methods for estimation of compression noise in an image or in a video sequence are provided. Difference values in a first direction are computed, and a plurality of statistical feature values for the difference values are computed in association with a plurality of offsets. At least one feature value is computed using the plurality of statistical feature values, and a compression-noise estimate may be determined in accordance with a criterion based on a comparison of the at least on feature value and an associated threshold and an additive noise estimate.

Abstract: A transition metal hexacyanometallate (TMHCM)-conductive polymer (CP) composite electrode is provided. The battery electrode is made up of a current collector and a transition metal hexacyanometallate-conductive polymer composite overlying the current collector. The transition metal hexacyanometallate-conductive polymer includes a AXM1YM2Z(CN)N.MH2O material, where A may be alkali metal ions, alkaline earth metal ions, ammonium ions, or combinations thereof, and M1 and M2 are transition metal ions. The transition metal hexacyanometallate-conductive polymer composite also includes a conductive polymer material. In one aspect, the conductive polymer material is polyaniline (PANI) or polypyrrole (Ppy). Also presented herein are methods for the fabrication of a TMHCM-CP composite.

Abstract: In a radio communications system in which a base station and a terminal communicate with each other, the base station is capable of efficiently notifying the terminal of control information. The base station sets monitoring of a second control channel in the terminal through RRC signaling that is higher-layer control information, the second control channel being a control channel different from a first control channel detectable by the terminal regardless of whether the terminal is in connected state or idle state and being detectable by the terminal only in a case where the terminal is in the connected state. The base station transmits control information for the terminal by mapping the control information to the second control channel. The connected state is a state where the terminal holds information concerning a network, and the idle state is a state where the terminal does not hold information concerning a network.